Friday, March 30, 2012

Past Lives & Phobias: a Theory

PROLOGUE

from MONAD 12.21.12 The Awakening of Stella Steinar

"He placed the
long, thin needle meticulously on the tray with the other sterilized
instruments.It had to be at least
a foot long.I tried to look away,
think of something else.I was
about to die.Again.It wasn’t the first time—and it
wouldn’t be the last.A new life
was waiting for me.I was faced
with many uncertainties.There were
only two things that I was certain of.

My
name will always be Stella.

And
my fate will always be the same."

Whether you’re a believer or not, and for the sake of this
exercise, let’s just assume for a moment that past lives are real and that
you’ve lived many, many lives before this one.Come on, humor me
and play along.

Now, follow me as I derail to another topic: phobias.Not the obvious kind of phobia that
results from a bad childhood trauma, but the unexplainable kind, its origin peculiar
and unknown.Aha!You see where I’m
going with this, right?No?Well, let me explain a little further
and I promise it will make sense.

I have a theory.I’ll choose a generic, common phobia as an example—acrophobia, a fear of
heights.When you break it down,
the phobia ultimately manifests as a fear of death—that the risk of being high
above the ground will result in an accident, a slip or fall or some other freak
way of plunging helplessly downward to your untimely demise.You don’t know why, when, or how you
developed this primal fear—you’ve never fallen like this before and obviously
you’re alive now, so it didn’t originate in this lifetime.So perhaps you fell to your death in a
previous life.You with me so far?

This idea is not original, by any means.Many have explored and treated phobias
based on this very thought process.But I’ve got something else to add here.Something for you to ponder, and it might just save you time
and money spent in hypnosis and regression therapy sessions, or it may simply
allow you to enjoy life a little more—phobia free.

My theory is this: Stella Steinar is unique (and fictional!). The chances of dying the same death you’ve already experienced in a past
life must be…astronomical!It would be a pointless step in our
soul’s evolution.So, even though
you may harbor this wretched fear of heights (or whatever it may be), you can
rest assured it won’t be how you actually die this time around.Voila!You see?You’ve been wasting precious time, fretting over the wrong
things!

So as you climb that ridge and shudder at the thought of
peeking over the edge of the cliff, the beads of sweat forming on your brow
while your heart pounds like a locomotive in your breast, remind yourself,
“This is not how I am destined to leave this earth.”It may put things into perspective and allow you to
appreciate the view.

But beware!It will be the thing you expect the least, the thing you don’t fear, that
will creep up on you when Death comes
knocking on your door.Does this
mean we should start to fear everything?That we can avoid death by abusing the theory?“Oh, I’m afraid
of…today, so conveniently, I won’t die.”Sorry, Charlie.It doesn’t work like that.My theory only applies to real phobias.Faking is not possible and either is immortality.

What I’m saying is, it’s plausible to overcome your fears if
you try this advice.Recite this
mantra the next time you find yourself catatonic, unable to pry your
white-knuckled grip from the railing six floors up: “I recognize that I
have this ridiculous phobia, that it’s always been with me even though I don’t
understand it.I have it because I
may have died this way in a past life.But this is a new life and it’s not how I am meant to leave this earth
today.”Good luck!